Claims he let boss claim lottery jackpot to avoid being discovered; then gets discovered when he threatened boss
Includes video report
A Georgia man who was jailed for threatening his boss over a disputed $750,000 lottery ticket faces deportation, with authorities saying he is in the U.S. illegally.
Police say Jose Antonio Cua-Toc threatened his boss, Erick Cervantes, and his wife, calling them repeatedly and saying he would "kill each of them and their children if they did not give him some of the lottery winnings," according to local newspaper The Sun News.
Cua-Toc's attorney denied the allegations Wednesday on MSNBC-TV.
"Mr. Cervantes has 750,000 reasons to say these things. They haven't been proven," Julio Moreno said.
Cua-Toc, 25, says he is the one who bought the winning lottery ticket and that Cervantes, 31, cashed the ticket on his behalf but failed to give him the winnings. Unsure whether his immigration status would affect his chance to cash in, Cua-Toc had held off on turning in the ticket himself.
"Current immigration laws in the state of Georgia and in the U.S. made him afraid to go in by himself. He had a friend that was going to be trusted to go with him, but unfortunately he couldn't make it in time," Moreno told MSNBC. "Before he was able to make it, the employer showed up. He was able to cash that ticket."
To cash a lottery ticket, a winner must show ID and provide a signature. Lottery officials say they don't verify immigration status.
But Cua-Toc didn't know that, his attorney said.
"Had he known, he could have probably gone by himself to cash it, but he didn't," Moreno said.
Three months after his arrest, Cua-Toc filed a civil lawsuit against his boss to recoup the lottery proceeds.
In a surveillance video played during a hearing in March, Cua-Toc is seen in OM Food Mart on Nov. 17, 2010, buying chips, beer, a phone and lottery tickets, The Sun News reported.
The tape shows him returning to the store later that evening and showing employees the ticket. He can be seen smiling excitedly and raising his hands in the air.
"There's surveillance evidence," Moreno told MSNBC. "He went in; you see him celebrating when he comes in a hour later with his girlfriend. There were three witnesses."
Cua-Toc reportedly testified in the hearing that Cervantes encouraged him to go to the lottery office but then cashed the ticket himself, saying he would give him all the winnings.
But Cervantes' lawyer, Kelly Burke, said the two men had planned to split the money evenly.
In a statement, Burke said, "Mr. Cua-Toc was generously rewarded for his role in picking out the ticket, but that is all he is going to get."
Cua-Toc's attorney did not provide any details on how the money was split.
The winnings are currently frozen, and a Georgia judge will decide who the rightful owner is.
Meantime, a judge has ordered Cua-Toc to leave the U.S. voluntarily by September 6. If he does not comply, he will be deported and not allowed to return for 10 years, local news channel WMAZ said.
Thanks to hearsetrax for the tip.
Obama to the Rescue!
idiots on both sides
the video showing alien buyin the ticket, and partying, is worth proof he real winner
but thinking he can stay in usa while claiming money
he could of claimed the money. their no law agiant aliens winnings.......
he just wanted the money and "right" to stay here atfer being discovered. he got greedy, and paid the price
he want to hes boss, who no doubt look down on aliens, taken the money, and ran, aka if he speaks out he be deported was logic no doubt.
so we have a theft on 1 end"boss" and a idiot on the other "alien" who wanted to stay here
just a note, if your a tourist to usa, feel free to buy lottery tickets, you can claim them just like any of us living here
just you better be gone by time limits of your greencard visa, or other passport agreement time limit
we deport people who didn't go thro the legal channels to be here.
as people who are not coming the legal way in ,aka they sneak in and are all criminals, and they don't give a flip about right and wrong, their evil leech's of hard working tax payers
but that's just my thinking thro, the dems think ever outlaw"alien" is a victim of some sort and belong in usa with us paying for their kids learning. food. you name it
am rofl at this alien trying to stay here and failed cease of hes own Greed
That illegal alien is a fool. He should have claimed his money, paid uncle Sam back taxes and associated fines for being an illegal and would have been allowed to stay on. Now he might get his money but he will be going to jail -on our dollars!
, and uncle Sam might clamp down on most of the money. Serves him right if you ask me.
+1
well they both was in on it split it.~its better then nonthing. he still a human / he might was goin to stay and spend the winning here.
this what happend when you trust a hillbilly to cash your lottery winnings.
hope the real winner get the rights to get his winnings.
Hasn't Cervantes ever heard of karma? How deceiptful! How low!
know thats friggin funny lol.
yup uh huh yup!
Greed is the moral of the story kids. Study hard, work hard, and when you get the chance steal! hehe j/k but in this story it is for real.
No way Jose.Get the illegals out of here.Jose should not have been here in the first place.Go home Jose.That $750,000 should go to the U.S. Border Patrol to secure our borders.
What a bunch of ignorant haters. We are ALL human and should be allowed to inhabit the planet without restriction. "Illegals" only have to pay 35% total in FL to cliam their prizes....Good for them!!
Since he came here to make money, I am sure he would be content with 65% of $750,000.00 and he would leave here happily. Illegal aliens are still human beings....this treatment except with the deportation part reminds me of how blacks used to be treated in the US. Work the heck out of them and steal their money. This country just thrives on racisim and greed.
LoL
There is a minor difference between blacks and hispanics...some blacks came as free people and immigrated "legally" to the US. Others were brought over on slave ships involuntarily. Cubanos take advantage of the political situation and as long as they physically touch US soil, they are granted asylum even though many are merely coming for economic reasons, not political. And mexicans and other central americans pay smugglers to guide them over the US-Mexico border...coming in illegally. Black slaves were never "illegal aliens". Without black slave labor, America and Europe would not be the prosperous countries they currently are. But back to the subject.
This is merely a case of dumb and dumber. The illegal was dumb for trying to "get around" his illegal status. I think I would have rather taken the chance of claiming the money, and even if I got hemmed in and ordered to leave the country, at least I would have done so $750,000 (minus taxes of course) richer. But no, dumb dude trusted dumber dude who perhaps forgot about the video surveillance.
Never, never, never, get a 'friend' or work colleague to cash a lottery ticket. If for some reason you are unable to do it your self, get a reputable lawyer to do it for you, and have an agreement in writing. What is it about lottery prizes that turns people into trusting fools?
"IT'S NO FUN BEING AN ILLEGAL ALIENNNN!!" Have to agree with Ol School Pa on this one! A lil research would have save this guy a whole lot of heart ache. But he was understandbly scared because of his alien status.
"You earn a living by what you make, You make a LIFE by what you give!
Sir Winston Churchill
OK, but you support all those people who should be allowed to "inhabit the planet" wherever they want to, ok?
Move them into your house and your area and you feed em.
It's your idea, you do it.
And don't ask or expect us to help you.
How about it, numbnuts?
"This country just thrives on racisim and greed."
Yeah, and this coming from the lady who celebrated OJ getting away with murder solely because his two victims were white.
You said it was "about time we got one" if I recall.
You got no room to talk about racism.
You thrive on it as much as anybody.
And if you don't like the country, there's no law against leaving.
Hey surimaribo, you can trust me to cash your ticket my friend!
And if you can show me a hillbilly named Cervantes, I'll come up to NYC and buy you a drink and give you a Daniel Webster ceegar!
A reputable lawyer? What's that? Never heard of it.
yeah Lot of bible fame had a choice for his task,. either find 10 honest men or " A reputable lawyer"
he wizely chose the 10 honest men.
Very funny rdgrnr ! Thanks for that great comic image. I am still laughing this morning.
Cervantes the hillbilly ? LOL
I pictured someone like Don Quixote in overalls .......with a yellow number #2 pencil in his pocket and chewing on a straw. LOL
Miguel de Cervantes (1547 - 1616) .........and Famous Spanish Hillbilly !
hahahhaha i knew rd you would catch this one . not a lot of lp has the sense of humour like you got men . u know ur comments always make me craking.
Sadly
Go tell that to Hugo Chavez, let us know if their going to sell tickets to your beheading?
Oh and one more observation, the fact your name calling, also makes you an ignorant hater, or didn't you notice that.
No, it is not okay to sneak into this country, and freeload off the backs of the working class. Let's not forget what it costs American citizens when , police, fire and other emergency services are clogged up with gang violence from illegal gangs.
House fire after house fire in Detroit because the illegals are hooking up electricity illegally and setting the house they squatted in on fire.
Let us not forget most of the people sneaking in have not been immunized, polio is making a comeback, thank you very much.
Oh and you can spare me the your a racist argument and we are all immigrants,
I'm Chippewa Indian, and not once have I taken a handout from a stinking government that once tried to exterminate us, I will not be bought with scraps of food from the government table of corruption.
If you bleeding hearts cared all that MUCH ABOUT THE PLIGHT OF ILLEGALS, YOU WOULD SPEAK LOUDER ABOUT THE HORRIBLE CONDITIONS OF THE COUNTRIES THEY LEFT, AND NOT STICK THAT PILE OF BULL <snip> ON MY BACK.maybe you should blame the leaders of these countries, that do little or nothing to take care of their own people.
Your bashing this guy for being a illegal alien, but your not bashing his boss. If you read the article, his boss is quite the low life. His friend was going to be late and in slips his boss, how amazing is this! What did the boss do tell the friend of the this guy, Oh don't worry I'll go and sign for him, you don't have to show up just call him tell him you can't make it. That's what it sounds like to me and he slithers in there to sign the ticket all the while knowing he wasn't going to give this guy one red-cent of his money. If anyone should go to jail it'should be the boss and his sleazy wife. They knew a good deal and a fast $750,000.00 free ticket and screw the employee / illegal alien. Now the employer should get in trouble for hiring illegal aliens. I thought they were going to crack down on employers that were hiring illegal aliens and not reporting them? So this Calavante is a bigger Sleaze bag than the illegal alien, he just didn't have the guts to call the store and ask a general question that if a person wasn't a legal citizen of the USA could they still cash a winning ticket? and what would they need to cash it.
Yep they are both sleaze bags.
now i guess the boss wont be riding this joint .
Deport Jose Antonio Cua-Toc as soon as possible!
Does this package come with GPS and live traffic update??
rdgrnr, I AGREE WITH YOU 100 PERCENT.....EVEN WITH THE OTHER POST ON THIS SUBJECT...100 PERCENT AGREE....America is filling up with all kinds of people from other countries. They don't want to live in their country,so hey, let's come to AMERICA to live. The goverment will help us. They don't even have to become American citizens if they don't want to,but want to live here.
America,long time ago used to be a GREAT SUPERPOWER,WHAT HAPPEN!!!
Didn't he know he was an illegal before he bought the ticket?
ofc he knew, we have had 1000s of illegal aliens getting into a protest walks with signs, demanding legal status atfer they broke the our laws to get here
they have balls , dems have allowed it, and reps don't have the balls or they get called racist if they Try
its a rather sad state, the racist card is used majority of time, or making them crimals out to be "victims" when their evil ones breaking laws, leeching off others tax buck, etc
ofc their illegal aliens buying tickets
the funny thing is this guy could of just Spit hes jackpot with Lawyer who could of claimed via a trust, DUH.................... idiot didn't want to use a lawyer
if i was a illegal alien, i would have no Clue how laws work in that nation, cease I DONT CARE whatever their laws say, am already a outlaw, why should i care about legal world,
i know for a fact a trust within a trust would of worked for this guy.
, and more legal firewalls could of kept him safe form idiot govt
. it would of just been a name on a paper nonething to check, as irs already got their money , laywers as truste dealed with lottery.
, legal status would of never came to light, trust would of paid the taxes, us govt is happy, and lottery none the wiser
but do law breakers, think about cleaver ways to use the Legal world as their friend and not their enemy, , hell noo....... their outlaws.
i just ask i Pay 0 taxes, why should i pay for your kids, your food, your homes, whatever, pay for it your self
and you don't Harm me in any way"aka steal my stuff, don't break anything i own, don't posion my air, then feel free to come to united states, and live here...............................
i have a issue if you sneak in and am paying for you thro, that i have a major issue with. as am already dealing with majority of leech's
now this jerk will be deported, us govt sure gets their tax money, and 1 outlaw is gone for good, also i hope boss gets jailed for being a theft, thro i be honest
it could of ended a lot worst, smartest thing to do as a theft stealing form aliens is to make the alien disappear, aka cops don't care about a missing person report, if the one their looking for is a illegal alien, ofc he up and left, he should of never been here
just be thankful its 2 idiots, and no one dead. and us govt sure gets their cut. also rofl at alien, even if he does get kicked out, he get taxed and hes lawyer he had to hire anyway will get hes cut
moral of the story, \illegal alien need to not be illegal aliens and get in smart way,
who knows, maybe even 1 illegal alien won mm or pb jackpot, and they could of been the one of the rare few who pulled the trust card, we never know, cease their to freaking cleaver.............
Oh, and daily encourage the illegal alien to not learn to speak and read your country's language! Because rudeness from an illegal alien, of any age, is enjoyable to experience.
Perhaps because too many people that didn't speak and read the same language, received a humongous allocation of resources from the country's tax reserve cash monies. No significant cash reserves left now.
Now it's becoming another "Babel" ... and several people realize that soon selfishness/rudeness/laziness/aversiveness caused that massive community to fall.
Could we, instead, send all three of these men (maybe also the convenience store owner and/or clerk who possibly sold alcohol to a person who didn't have a government issued photo id) walking with a gracious canteen of water to a Southern country later this week with NO opportunity to re-enter the U.S.A.?
rdgrnr get on that cowosucky and come to ny to buy me a drink and cigar
. heres it is
Bush should come to the Rescue he start it.
I feel that if you are Illegal you shouldn't be able to claim any prize. It's greed in american for cheap labor.
What about all the companies that hire Illegal, so that they can put all the money in there pocket. I try and buy
all made in amercian so that the people in this country can have jobs. All the major company have sent there stuff
to other country, so that when you call about anything you reach another country it's all GREED. While we sit around
and point finger as to who to blame. Why don't we hit these people in there POCKETBOOK were it matter. This si not in Obama
problem It was here before he came in. It simple out of hand they have learn to Lawyer up and fight. I heard there governmment say
they do the jobs that no one else want to do. Blacks have being there and done that. I think the money should go back to the
state of Georgia, but then why should it you didn't have any laws to protect one to Hellwho should get the money. This country has
gone to hell in a hand basket because of GREED,RUDENESS,COMPUTER,IPHONE,CELLPHONE , LAZY people not during the job running
credit check on everything from jobs to getting water and lights. What happen to the days when non of this was done, and the country was
fine. AMERICAN HAVE LOST THERE WAY AND THEY DON"T NO HOW TO GET BACK TO BASIC.
That ain't a Cervantes but I might buy you a drink and a Daniel Webster ceegar anyway!
Giorgio, the hillbilly!
hahahah i knew you gonna get cracking on this one rdgrn . i might be needing that cowosucky if that irene hit us on sunday hahah
Yeah, take care up there man.
If she goes the way they say she's gonna go right now, you're gonna be on the bad side of the storm on north Long Island.
Take care buddy.
thanks rd . preciate it hope all goes well .
Thank you Win D.
Parallels can be drawn though, you know.
But instead of tilting at windmills, I tilt at newspaper machines.
HUH?? Hugo Chavez??? Nice comparing apples to horse shoes..All of the illegals I know work way harder than most of our American Bretheren. Polio....seriously?? The alcohol is getting to your head. Get a frigging life...or marry ur retarded brother Rddgrnr.......GAH!!!
House fires caused by illegals....hooking up illegal electric....this chic is on fire....
You're just another bleeding heart liberal wanting everybody else to pay your way.
Nobody takes you morons serious anymore.
Nobody cares what you have to say.
We've heard it all before
So blow it out your ass dumbo, you don't count.
"Nobody?"
Are you sure?
How do you manage to use gutter language without having it <snip>ed?
Can any member get this privilege by paying extra?
You're right Nancy, I shouldn't have said "nobody" cares what BlowLow has to say. Just 99.9% of us.
You were probably in the men's room at the Rest Area on I-95 when I took a show of hands.
Sorry about that.
Wow, you assume because I'm Indian I must be a drunk, you are a Racist who likes to sterotype, why are you so full of Hate?
So, the illegals, who are collecting welfare and working under the table, are not only making a better living than you, but they don't pay their fair share of taxes, or did you come to this conclusion because your the one who hired them to mow your lawn for 5 bucks?
I HAVE NO PROBLEM WITH PEOPLE COMING HERE, THEY JUST NEED TO DO IT THE RIGHT WAY, AND NOT SIGN UP FOR FOODSTAMPS THE MINUTE THEY GET HERE.
Hugo, if not him than pick any country in the world, thats living under a dictatorship, lets see how long you'll last running your mouth off, enjoy this freedom DOWNLOW,Because many of your American Brethern died protecting it for you.
Polio, yep you bet, lets see what else can we add to that list, Rubella, Tuberculosis, Whooping cough, Hepatitis A,B,C..Meninghitis (viral, spinal and Bacterial), the reason we get vaccinated is because most of the world is to stupid to protect themselves from disease. Many of the people at risk for these diseases in America are school age children, because it takes time to get all the vaccines, can't do it all at once. Clearly you have no concern for American children.
Tell you what DOWNLOW, Go to Arizona and shout your words of ignorance, the illegals who are running drugs and killing people need someone like you on their side.
Some people are blinded by the true fact. Were I live you have rich farmer and construction bossy that are trying to help keep
them here" Why my friend Cheap LABOR. GREED. They don't want to have to pay real money for a days work.
It doesn't matter that most of them are not the worker they were when they first came here. They have learn how to get
there way paid for. Put the blame were the blame goes on us. Some people thought that they had a bunch of fool, and the
table turn We did'nt think it would affect us middleclass folks. American said only english would be our first lanuage well
that was a lie Every were you go every place you call has a second lanuage Spanish. rdgrnr my part of the country is
die hard REPublican. This guy took the wrong aproach. Quite frankly as hard as time are if he stole my ticket I ight
have beat his A___S down to the lottery office myself.
I agree with you pepper.
The people who hire them ought to have their rear ends thrown in jail.
And we've had bills presented making English our official language but they're always squashed by the Democrats.
BS. Citizenship to any country is a privilege that should be respected by obeying the laws of that country. To let anyone live anywhere willy-nilly is asking for trouble. Laws are in place for a reason. They are there to protect the citizens and LEGAL immigrants within those borders.
BS on this too. What part of ILLEGAL do you not understand? ILLEGAL aliens came here of their own free will. Slaves were stolen from their homeland and FORCED into slavery. I really hate it when people try and rewrite history to suit their personal wims. People like you who scream racism all the time thrive off racial division in this country. Shame on you.
Excellent post Sully!
The 'official' term for the bad side of a hurricane is 'dirty side'.
It describes it so much better.
4 things to say about the story:
1. Give the ILLEGAL alien 1/2 the money AFTER taxes (evidence shows it was his ticket)
2. Deport the ILLEGAL alien
3. Give the other half to the border patrol
4. Throw the employer in jail